Gilgamesh writes:
- It is the oldest book known to man.
Not true. If you refer to the bible as 1 book, then it is not the oldest known book by a long shot. If you were talking about the oldest book in the bible, which is a collection of books, then noone can claim that it's the oldest book because noone knows how old it is.
- It has statistically improbable numerical patterns throughout it that testify to it's divine origins (Bible Numerics/Bible Codes)
Haha. Ya. Even most YEC's discourage their fellow creos from using this argument.
- It has scientific insights that could not have been known to man at the time (food hygiene, circulation of weather, the earth being a sphere, importance of blood to life, number of stars in the sky, etc.)
(Common sense, win generally go east and west not north and south, a circle is not a sphere, common sense, again common sense, etc.)
- It is full of fulfilled prophecy.
You forgot the words "vague and obscure". The sentence should have been "It is full of vague and obscure but fulfilled prophecies."
- It contains the best lessons and rules for living a complete moral life.
Yup, including a guidance to how to sale your daughters into slavery to pay off debts.
- The Son of God confirmed it's authority.
Ya, this is true. I mean, how can you argue with "the bible is true because god says so and we know that god exists because the bible says so"?
- Despite the fact that it is made up of many books written by many authors of hundreds of years, in is internally consistent and inerrant.
Haha. My computer programming prof once said, "if you input a several piles of garbage, the output will be a big pile of garbage."
- It contains the only truly accurate account of creation of the universe and life.
Yup, I believe there's no argument against this one. It's fool proof.
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